Shaw/Harris Cover-Up Questions? Answers! Answers? Questions!

After reading, Cover-Up, 1st edition, 1976 on my e-reader:


"Educational Failure
Our schools have failed in attaining their
original goal. The original intention of education in
America was "that our children may learn to read
the Holy scriptures that they might not be ignorant
of Satan and his devices." Instead, our public
education system has become a safe-house for
atheistic and perverted instructors who deny the
existence of God and teach the hypothesis that man
evolved from apes. Our children are required to
listen to such tripe while at the same time being
told that Bible reading and prayers in public
schools are unconstitutional."

(Cover-Up, chapter 8, page 210).

This should have been on the first page, not in the last chapter. So as a reader, you can decide for
yourself if you want to continue to read Cover-Up by J. Gary Shaw and Robert R. Harris. Granted, the
reader is warned not to be shocked by chapter eight. After seven chapters of meticulously dissecting
the myth of the Warren Report, countering it with logic and facts, in chapter eight, the tables are
turned completely? You think you are reading the dissection of a fairytale, but in reality, you are being
lured into the realm of hardcore religion.

"God > Logic > Science > Single bullet theory"

It reminds one of the book Lord of the Flies, where the stranded children are seemingly saved from the island and
their horrific children's war, when they run into a naval officer on the beach. The officer expresses his disappointment
at seeing British boys exhibiting such feral behavior before turning to stare awkwardly at his own warship.

I respect people's personal religious views and I understand that in many churches, knowledge that
diverts the flock from the holy books, is of 'satanic origin'. Just as for faithful citizens, any information that
contradicted the FBI/WC solution to the Kennedy assassination must be, as Walter Cronkite put it, 'Soviet
propaganda'. I'm quite certain that Shaw and Harris wouldn't burn you at the stake for thinking differently 
about religious matters, but it does raise questions: why use science/knowledge to make your point about the JFK
assassination and then denounce it as 'satanic' when looking at the big picture?

There are cultural differences, I'm not an American, and this book was written long before the JFK Act of 1992, 
so the authors had less information. So a different place, and a different time, a different culture. This is a book
written for Americans, in the seventies, who were looking to get their feet back on solid ground. Shaw and Harris 
show that Washington is lost, and offer religion as the answer, in chapter eight.

Little to nothing in this book by Shaw and Harris adds anything to what had already been written by Penn Jones
and Josiah Thompson, and others. It presents an overview of the case, as shown, with some personal flourishes.
Many assumptions are made, questionable testimony believed and too little is checked by the authors themselves,
despite them continuously pointing the finger at the Warren Commission and FBI for doing exactly the same.

How different are these critical thinkers from WC-defenders who are able to micro-dissect criticism of the Report,
only to continue and endorse the single-bullet theory and the WC's tale of the magical bullet CE399 as sacred,
undeniable facts? In the end, If I hadn't been reading Cover-Up on my new e-reader, I would have thrown it out
the window.